Railway-tie.



R. W. SGHULZ. RAILWAY TIE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 28, 1913 Patented Femagle.

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1f we; "Fi I "tlllllllll STATE@ PATENT RUDOLPH W. SCHULZ, OF WATERLOO, IOWA.

RAILX/VAY-TIE.

Application filed May 28, 1913.

f/f'if/ m if: mm/ fm1/'ern i it. known that l. hlnorrn lV. SCHULZ, /zrn o'i` thev United States el' n'ieriea, resident ol' ll'aterloo, llaekhawli woning'. lowz, have invented Certain new and zssejl'nl linprovmnents in Railwa'vfies. o1" whirl! the lollowing` is a sj'ieeitieatirni.

My invention relates to improvements in railwayV ties. and the objeet ot' my improv(lh and a nirn 1 to provide an all metallie eross-tie for a '.aj-f rails adapted 't'or seeure eniplaee nent in the road beth and provided with det: feeinririg-means t'or the rails. This ily-et l have areoinj'ilished by the means wliirlr are liet-etna t'er deseribed and Claimed.

and whieli are illustrated in the a-eeompany in whiehr Figure 1 an upper plan view ot my inijnoved railway tie, with dotted lines rep-- resenting the positions of the railsI when seeured thereon. Fig'. 2 a' medial long-itudinal rei-tical section in part. and a side elevation in part of my said iinjnoved railway tie. Fie'. il is an enlarged medial vertieal longitudinal :section ot my said tie. coinprisinf"Y only the left-hand portion thereof, the being` broken away. Fig. 4 is a transvnse vertical section ot my said tie, n ith a part broken away7 taken through the box-easing on the under side o'l` the tie.

Similar ninnerals ot referenecv denote eorresponding parts throughout the several riews. y

llie body 14 ot my tie comprises a tlat horimnital plate having downwardly obliolnely 'tlepressed edges 1, to form a reversed trouglwsliaped body. whieh may be embedded in thegsoil or the ballast `ot theI road bed to seeurely hold it transversely to the spared rails Liliel engaging-devices loeated on opposite ends of the plate 14 and plaeed thereon in a like manner. as is best .shown in said Fig. 1. To hold one side of thf.` leise of a rail 18, aV pair of integral tongues are punched out ol. said plate`14 and spat-,ud therefrom upwardly as shown.

Referring; now to Figs. 3 and 1-, the. numerfil 3 denotes an oblong opening in the plate 14,' and the numeral 15 defl notes ay dependingeasing-box secured on the under face ot said plate spaeed ,trom and eoyering said openinp'. The oppo` site longitudinal sides ot said box 15 as also one ot the longitudinal sloping parts 1, of they tie body, are oritieed in line with each other to receive therethrough a roeleshaft Specification of Letters Pat-ent.

ilotented Feb. ttll.

Serial No. 770,374.

10.y with opening` 1T in the part 1, being enlarged and the outer end ot said shaft 10 being squared to take a removable boxwreneh 1li. A shaft l0 has within the Casing 153 a radial projecting` arm or blade 1l. Upon the top ot the plate. 1l is secured a bear-inn' body 12 adaptedto receive the op positely directed studs 12 on one end ot the .swinging bloek T, the latter provided with. a downward projeetion adapted to extend" into the opening 3 below the lower surfaee of the plate let. and having a transverse `groove H just below the level of said plate Il. 'the numeral 4 denotes a Clutch-block, whose upper pronged part is adapted to be engaged with the opposite side of the base o'l the rail 1S, with a lower pronged part (l lying under the plate lil to engage its lower surface when said bleek has been seated in the openingl 3. Said block et has transversely extending lugs 5 adapted to aet as stops in bearing against the upper surface,

of said plate 14 and the abutting faces et the bloeks t and 7 are formed in a slopingr manner.A so that when the block 4 has iirst been seated in said opening` 3, with the block 'T swungl upwardly7 the block 7 may then be swung downwardly to detaehably engage the other block. as shown in Fig. 3. The numeralf) denotes a bent plate-spring, one end o'lI whieh is secured to the undertaee of the downwardly projecting' part of the block 7, the other part ot' the spring' beingbent olbliquely upward past the 1-oek-shaft 10, with its extremity bent over in the' same general direetionas its secured end. and lying adjaeent to the opening` oi the slot S. To seeure a. rail y 187 to said tie, the box-wrench 1G is fitted on the squared end of the shat't l()7 and the shaftI turned in such a manner as to cause its blade 11 to engage the tree end ot the springl 9 and push the free eX- tremity of the latter into the slot S ot the block 7, when said block may then be swung up Yardly7 and disengaged from the block Il, the spring El sliding by the edge of the opening 3. The block el may then be slid alongr said opening to permit of the rail 1S being,Y lof-ated to have one side of its base engaged with the tongues Q. The block t may then be pushed back to its former position. to

engage the opposite side of the rail base.

shown in and the lolok 7 then swung downwardly to canse its projection to enter the s/ald opening, so taut. when the spring 9 has passed below the level of the under lll?) surface ol'the plate let, it will re-aet and spring),` haelt to engage the under surface of said plate, thus locking said blocks in their liisl' positions, as shown in Fig. 3. A rail may be disconnected from the tie by reversing said process.

This invention forms a quickly operated and convenient means for securing' rails in metallic eross-ties, and it is to be understood that details of construction, as shown, n'iay be varied considerably without departing;- Ytroni the scope and principle 'of my infention .l lavin claim as new, ters Patent, is:

l. railway-tie, comprising` a downwardly-troughed body having at its opposite ends like rail-securing means, each railseen ing` means including` longitudinallyspaccd clutch-members adapted to grasp opposite sides of Vthe rail detachably, one of said securingmeans being fixed and the other n'iovable to and from the rail, and inea for detachably locking said movable means against said ail, comprising' a swing b' l' unted on .said troughed-bodv to be described inv invention, what I and desire to secure by Letloca swung,` tmvard and engage the said detachable soeuringaneans when the latter is en- ,fgagei'l willi the rail, and a yieldable resilient stop for delachabiy securing said swingbloelt to the troughed-body while in its said engageiil position. A railway tie, comprising a downzrardivtroughcd bodj.7 having` at its opposite ends like railsecuring means, each railsceuringf means including,` longitudinallyspaeed ciutcl'i--inenibers adapted to {g1-asp op- .e sides ol the rail detachably, one oi', c 'nirnncans being iixed and the movable to and -from the rail, said j, ged borljY beine" slotted and the latter secnriiig-means being slidably seated in said .i-zint Vo be engaged detachablj7 with the under e oglj' the body when engaging the rail, a airing-block pivoted at one enel to the upper surface of said tronghed body and havini, on its other end a slotted projection apifd lo be swung into the said first mentioned slot lo engage and hold the said securing-ineans in its engaged position with the rail,-a spring secured to the projection on l swore-bloeit and bent upwardly and then freely to have its tree end oppositie the ,flot in said projection and to spring out of slot. to engage the under surface ot' the nal-bodjY when the projection is in its :said lowered position, and means for movymoved toward it` ing said spring-end into the slot in the swing-bloei; j irojection, to permit the latter to be swung upwardly and release said detachable securing-means from the rail,

3. A railway-tie, comprising a plate havits edges bent downwardly obliquely outward to form an inverted dislied body, like securing-means for rails on opposite ends of said plate, each securing-means consisling` ol fixed tongues projected from the plate toward and ol the rail-base, said plate having.;` a slotted opening near and spaced from said tongues longilndiinillv, a easingbox secured on'th'e under :tace ol said plate below said openingr and having alined beai'ingbrilices in its op-v posite longitudinal sides, the. adjacent depressed longitudinal edge of said plate havin c` an orilice in line with such other orilices, a rocleshai't seated in all three ol said oritices to project without the tie, said shaft ha vinga longiti1dbadly-arranged iin within said. box, a clutch-block slidablv seated in and occupying;` only7 a part of the slotted openingl in said plate and havingl spa-ced projections above and below the plate, with the upper projection adapted to grasp the opposite side ot the said rail-base when and the lower projection contacting' with the under surface of the plate, the opposite end of saidi block being sloped toward the rail upwardly, a swingbloek having one end pivoted to the top of said plate and havingan integral dependin projection on ils other end, said other enc being sloped to tit upon the abutting sloping` end oi said clutch-block when moved down lo contact therewith, the projection of the swing-block beine' movable into the slotted opening in seid plate and having a transverse slot below the level oi said opening when in that position, a plate-Springsecured to the lower face ol said projection, then bent upwardly toward said rock-shaft and then having` its free end bent toward the slot in lhe projection, said shaft when rocked beingadapted to move its said iin against said spring' to push its bent over end into the slot in the projection, to free the springend from lhe under surface of the plate with which it is normally engaged.

Signed at ifVatei-loo, iowa, this 15th day of May lilli.

RUDOLPH W'. SCHULZ.

lVitnesscs Vni'r P. Hoxln, Gro. C. KnNNnnY.

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